Public Health, Genetic Techniques In
As of 2002 more than ten thousand genes have been discovered, and it is estimated that 30,000 to 70,000 human genes will be identified as a result of the Human Gen...
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Medicine and Health
When the Civil War began in April 1861, American medicine was approaching what Union Surgeon General William Hammond called "the end of the medical Middle Ages." The ...
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Medicine, Traditional—Central Asia
Since the implosion of the Soviet Union in 1991, health care and pharmaceutical industries in the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, ...
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Medicine, Traditional —China
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has a long history. More than two thousand years ago the earliest of the extant medical classics, the Huangdi nei jing (Yellow Em...
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Medicine, Traditional — West Asia
West Asia was (and still is) a heterogeneous area in terms of topography, climate, and culture, which perhaps explains its pluralism—even syncretism...
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Winston-Salem State University's School of Health Sciences offers students the ability to earn Bachelor of Science degrees a variety of medical careers. The medical industry in the United States con...
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Researchers at the University of New Mexico's Health Sciences Center believe they have found a way to make patients less fearful of needles _ decorate them with butterflies, flowers and s...
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Employees of one of the National Institutes of Health are being asked to report all contacts with Congress _ a request that one lawmaker suspects is an attempt to flush out would-be whistle-blowers...
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Employees of one of the National Institutes of Health are being asked to report all contacts with Congress _ a request that one lawmaker suspects is an attempt to flush out would-be whistle-blowers...
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Newspaper reporters who exposed how 53 children in seven years died after Illinois child-welfare workers made mistakes or ignored their own rules and Atlanta photographers who covered the funeral o...
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Newspaper reporters who exposed how 53 children in seven years died after Illinois child-welfare workers made mistakes or ignored their own rules and Atlanta photographers who covered the funeral o...
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Two professors at the University of Oklahoma say they've developed a protein that can stop the spread of certain cancer cells without damaging normal cells.Thomas Pento and Roger Harrison helped de...
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Independent distributors filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing USANA Health Sciences Inc. of fraud and deception, the latest public-relations blow for the marketer of vitamins and nutritional supplemen...
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